RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS OF ALBANY, FROM 1800-1808

Book Description

Albany: : Joel Munsell,, 1866.. Third edition.. Octavo,. Very good. Some edgewear.. Twenty illustrations, portraits, views and a plan. . three quarter morocco and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt. Gorham Worth lived in Albany in the early 1800's. This memoir was not published until ten years after his death in 1856 at age 73. Joel Munsell acquired and published the manuscript that provided unique personal perspectives on some of Albany's citizens. The notes were contributed by contemporary historians at Munsell's request. A native of Nantucket Island, Worth was a cashier of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank during the early nineteenth century. He left Albany in 1817 and later wrote similar "Recollections" on the cities of Cincinnati and Hudson. His detailed descriptions are a delight to the imagination. He discusses the old Dutch houses, the many varied downtown buildings, and the people who dwelled there. This history also includes genealogical facts and a map circa 1696.

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